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  2. THUMBS UP.

    Purple, Certificate to Eileen [?]pwood (14), [?] Haldon-street, La[?]emba. Seven shillings and sixpence, five shillings, and half-crown ...

    Article : 919 words
  3. Country Breezes

    Letters must be very short and brightly-written. One half-crown prize and colored certificates every week for the brightest and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 44 words
  4. FROM A CHAIR IN THE SUN

    DEAR SUNBEAMERS.-- I left off last week, from simple want of space, in the manner that a continued-in-our-next novelette leaves ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 875 words
  5. SHEARING

    It's shearing [?]ime at home now, and I'm not there. Terrible, isn't it? I remember the shearings when I was a bit of a nip; my brother and I ...

    Article : 399 words
  6. COMPETITION CORNER

    COLORED CERTIFICATES.-- Purple equals 4 marks, Blue [?] marks, Red 2 marks, Orange 1 mark. When you have a total of 25 marks, post certificates, with full name and address, to the Editor, in a long unsealed envelope, marked "Sun Cards Only." A substantial Cash Prize will be awarded, and the cancelled certificates ...

    Article : 305 words
  7. THE MAGIC CARPET [?]

    Blue Certificate to Norman Guthrie (15), "Illowra," [?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 16 words
  8. ROUND THE WORLD

    It is over two years ago since I sent in my last contribution. I suppose you have been wondering where I have vanished to. Well, I will tell you. I have had a most ...

    Article : 591 words
  9. RESULTS A PROVOKING PROVERB

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 271 words
  10. LONGINGS

    I have so many longlings, dear Chief, that I am sure I could not write them all down. I long to win a D.O.S. to be a Girl Guide, to be an artist, and ever so many more, but ...

    Article : 133 words
  11. OUR YOUNG POETS.

    Blue Certificate to Wendy (16), 32 Royal-street, Chatswood. "The essence of poetry is invention, such invention as, by producing something ...

    Article : 30 words
  12. DE BURGH BRIDGE

    Dear Chief.-- A "Sunbeamer" lately wrote about De Burgh Bridge. The bridge, I think I am correct in saying, was not named after de Burgh, the ...

    Article : 264 words
  13. TRAVEL

    Chief, my longings are very much the same as other 'Beamers' longings. First, I wish to attain the standard where one uses letters after one's name. Among them I ...

    Article : 99 words
  14. SUMMER

    Summer-- and all the gum trees on the hill A-flower, and gleaming like a bridal veil; The creamy blossoms, shimmering, dance, bewitched; ...

    Article : 107 words
  15. MANY THINGS

    I long to have an aeroplane to scale the cloudy heights, I'd love to have a speedy yacht to sail on starry nights. ...

    Article : 119 words
  16. CALIFORNIAN GIANT

    While I was in America (California, I should say), we passed through a tremendous tree. It was in the middle of the road, and a car could pass through it easily. In one of the ...

    Article : 61 words
  17. FIRST WHITE BABY

    The Mona-Mona Mission Station is about 16 miles from Kuranda. To get there you catch the train at Kuranda, and get out at Oaklands (eight miles ...

    Article : 208 words
  18. RAIN

    Rain on the hill And Rain in the hollow; Rain elves abroad, ...

    Article : 68 words
  19. JOLLY GAMES

    Any number of players may play this game, except one, and two players would be uninteresting. A balloon is blown up, and the field chosen (the lawn or back yard). ...

    Article : 136 words
  20. TO VISIT EGYPT

    To visit Egypt and travel over the desert upon the soft-padded camel[?] To see the flaming sun setting amid a blaze of vivid color; to hear the chanting of the Arabs ...

    Article : 127 words
  21. CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN

    Purple Certificate to Beryl Carneaux (17), [?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 12 words
  22. THE WANDERING SHADOW

    Draw a circle on a sheet of white paper, and two lines across the circle, cutting one another at right angles at the centre. Now stick a pin through the centre of the circle ...

    Article : 118 words
  23. EVENING

    The sun has set, the earth is still as death. The air is chill, no sound the silence breaks; The leaves are still, for there is scarce a breath ...

    Article : 136 words
  24. BOOK [?] MUSIC LOVERS

    I have just finished reading Conan Doyle's "Poison Belt.' It is entirely different from other books I have read by the same author. The story tells of a great scientist who warns ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 298 words
  25. MUDDLED GEOGRAPHY

    This game is great fun to play. There are three hats, and as many slips of paper in each as there are children playing. In the first hat is a town, in the second a river, ...

    Article : 166 words
  26. HOW TO PAIR THE PENNIES

    This little coin problem is novel and interesting, and well worth demonstrating at a party. You lay eight pennies on the table, and ask if anyone, by moving one coin on ...

    Article : 179 words
  27. KEY PUZZLE

    Take a rather heavy key, and fasten one end of a length of thin string to it. Hold the end of the string, and let the key dangle. It will immediately begin to swing to and ...

    Article : 90 words
  28. GOLD AND HILL-END

    Have you ever been to a small town north of Bathurst called Hill End? We spent the mid-winter holidays there. It has many beautiful scenes, ...

    Article : 145 words
  29. THE BUTTERFLY

    Colorful fancy, Hov' ring On high, Fluttering downward, ...

    Article : 28 words
  30. THE GLASS TRICK

    Many will remember this experiment if they study physicology. Get a wine glass, or any glass will do, and fill it to the brim with water. Place a card on the top, and ...

    Article : 80 words
  31. TANGRAMS

    Making Tangram figures is a favorite pastime for everyone, young and old. The following is the simplest method of making the Tangram Puzzle: Cut a piece of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 254 words
  32. NARROW ESCAPES

    When I was about nine or ten my mother took me up to Crow's Nest to do some shopping. (I could walk then, which I cannot now). Coming home, we were ...

    Article : 118 words
  33. DO YE KEN

    I do no ken What it means, So, thought I'd ask "Sunbeams." As I and Uncle Ben ...

    Article : 101 words
  34. THIS ADVERTISING

    A butcher, walking down the street, passed a dairy, and read this sign: "Milk from Contented Cows." He was impressed by the idea, and next ...

    Article : 49 words
  35. WHATS AND WHYS

    Q.: What beams a carpenter cannot cut A.: Bunbeams. -- Badge to Keith Hanson (15), 74 Glenfarne-street, Bexley. ...

    Article : 134 words
  36. NEAR LION ISLAND

    While staying at Woy Woy Dad and I went fishing past Lion Island, While we were quietly fishing Dad said: "Oh, look, what's that"-- and quite close to ...

    Article : 115 words
  37. A MORAL HERE

    One Sunday last year, as I was riding on my bicycle along Gordon-road near Wyvern-avenue, I failed to put out my hand when turning the corner, and the result was that ...

    Article : 96 words
  38. DRINKER OF AMBROSIA [?]

    This is such a sweetness, Sweeter than any I have known; A sweetness that sooth[?]s and thrills With its exhi[?]rating coolness. ...

    Article : 65 words
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